Storm Amy

[nannynick]

The storm coming Fri 3, Sat 4 October has been named.

Video from Met Office:

Strengthening wind on Friday night, Northern Ireland, Scotland.
Showers from North West on Saturday.

And weather warnings which might change as we get nearer to the weekend.
(Thanks for the thread, nannynick)

Netweather has some information here which indicates how warnings might change.

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing

Checking in!

My step brother is flying into Aberdeen on Sat morning… that could be a bumpy landing, or may be fine. No idea what time his flight comes in but my guess is the later in the day the better.

Schools in four counties in N Ireland closed with no warning this morning (upgraded to amber) - kids sent home before 12. No far not much sign of any wind but v heavy rain since about 9 am.

Wind getting up in Central Scotland

Quite windy here in the west of Ireland.

Getting windy & heavy rain north east england. Powergrid has sent out texts expecting power cuts
overnight.
Love a good storm.

Wish I weren't booked to travel from London to Edinburgh on a train on Saturday evening. Hope they're not all completely cancelled.

It's rough here in the east Midlands

Current wind map for the UK. The West Coast of Ireland looks to be getting hammered. Hope all are OK there. As usual, we also have a weird spin-off here on the NE coast of England

I’m in the NE and it’s pretty wild atm, the dog hates it, I hate it, grim all round. At least we have some high pressure on the horizon.

I'm in West (coast) of Scotland. Wind has been ferocious for hours now. I'm obsessively watching a Hercules that was meant to land at Prestwick about an hour ago on Flightradar.

Looks like it’s being diverted to Manchester

Windy West Midlands.

Got home before the worst of the wind. It was squally once I arrived at dd's college but got home and to the supermarket before the worst arrived. The rain has been bad but managed most of my driving in a break in the heaviest rain. It sounds really blowy out there now.

Kiddo's out and about though. On a cycle.

Thanks for the thread!

I can see the Pisa to Prestwick has been diverted to Manchester. However, this has no diversion notice up. I suspect it's because it's not a commercial flight.

The north west of Scotland seems to have been getting particularly battered. The storm seems to have hit Donegal hard then moved out into the northern Atlantic, Hebrides etc, but the worst of it didn't hit NI, though it's stormy enough.

A London to Aberdeen flight circled Aberdeen and has been diverted back to London.